Packages for Mac
Create distribution and installation packages.
Free
In English
Version 1.2.9When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission
Packages overview
Packages lets you create distribution and installation packages.
Who is it for?
Well, imagine you are a software developer who just completed a project and it's time to work on shipping it. Or you are an administrator and you need to deploy a plugin on the Mac computers of your network. Whenever you need to create an installation package or distribution for Mac OS X 10.5 or later, Packages is the powerful and flexible solution you're looking for.
With Packages, you can define which applications, bundles, documents or folders should be part of the payload of your installation packages and where they should be installed. You can even set what the owner, group or permissions of the payload items should be upon installation. And if you need to also install an existing package, just import it so that it can be added to your distribution.
Presentation Editor
With its WYSIWYG editor, Packages lets you set and localize the customizable panes of your distributions. Checking how your distribution looks like in different languages has never been so easy. You can even add Installer plugins to your distribution.
What’s new in version 1.2.9
Version 1.2.9:
Enhancements:
- Updated the CPU requirements UI to take into account new possible CPU configurations.
- Updated the RAM requirements UI to take into account new possible RAM configurations.
- Better support for Catalina/Mojave OS version numbers in the OS requirements UI.
- Services Users and Groups are now hidden by default. They can be displayed through an option in the Files preferences pane.
Fixed:
- An offset was incorrectly computed when preserving extended attributes and the com.apple.FinderInfo attribute was MIA.
- The identifier setter option of packagesutil was not working correctly. Thanks to v-sypayr for the report and investigation.
Packages for Mac
Free
In English
Version 1.2.9
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May 9 2020
Version: 1.2.9
Critical tool for all software engineers and IT shops. What Apple should have provided...
Mar 3 2020
Version: 1.2.8
works perfect for us indie dev's....
much respect & many many thx Stéphane Sudre !!!
without this great tool it would be a horror to do this all by hand and Terminal...
works perfect here with pre and post scripts ...
notarization ad signing is a breeze ...
thank you so much!!!
there is nothing like this out...
nor did Apple make a tool like these to help us...
much respect Stéphane Sudre
Apple should pay you!
Feb 7 2018
Version: 1.2.1
I can't run a Pre script with this package. Shows error Don't run as root.
Oct 24 2017
Version: 1.2
I was working on OS X 10.10 on Packages. Was completely satisfied with it.
Have been unable to download the update when I upgraded to 10.13. The URL seems to be blocked in India.
Any other way I can download?
Oct 6 2017
Version: 1.2
All (previous) versions worked fine and the developer is very responsive and helpful.